January 2003
African-American Lives on Video
Musical Heritage
| Aida’s Brothers and Sisters: Black Voices in Opera | VHS 11758 |
| American Patchwork: Land Where Blues Began | VHS 8831 |
| Blues Like Showers of Rain | VHS 463 |
| Blues Masters: History of the Blues | VHS 7966 |
| Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music | VHS 7654 |
| Body and Soul (Ray Charles) | VHS 1222 |
| Call of the Jitterbug | VHS 11462 |
| Charlie Christian: Solo Flight | VHS 7734 |
| Clark Sisters | VHS 11768 |
| Darker Side of Black | VHS 11463 |
| Forty Years of MJQ | VHS 8488 |
| Freddie King | VHS 12626 |
| Gospel | VHS 10004 |
| Gotta Make This Journey: Sweet Honey In the Rock | VHS 3686 |
| Great Day in Harlem | VHS 9569 |
| Hot Pepper | VHS 1286 |
| Hurricane (Herbie Hancock Trio) | VHS 8491 |
| I Promise to Remember (Frankie Lymon) | VHS 10581 |
| Jazz (Ken Burns) | VHS 11963 (10v.) |
| Jazz Collection | VHS 8957 (10 v.) |
| Jazz Heroes: Monk, Ella and Dizzy | VHS 13556 (3v.) |
| Jazz Parades: Feet Don’t Fail Me Now | VHS 9484 |
| Jessye Norman, Singer | VHS 3714 |
| John Lee Hooker & Friends | VHS 7281 |
| Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory | VHS 11735 |
| JVC Smithsonian Folkways Video of Music and Dance of Africa (3 volumes) | VHS 7813 |
| Kathleen Battle at the Metropolitan Museum | VHS 10607 |
| Leontyne Price Sings Noel | VHS 2539 |
| Legend: Bob Marley and the Wailers | VHS 10887 |
| Lightnin’ Hopkins | VHS 7280 |
| Lost Concert (The Winans) | VHS 8492 |
| Lullaby of Harlem | VHS 11985 |
| Mabel Mercer, a Singer’s Singer | VHS 827 |
| Miles in Paris | VHS 3537 |
| Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever | VHS 2862 |
| Nat King Cole: Loved in Return | VHS 10007 |
| On the Road Again: Downhome Blues, Jazz… | VHS 10609 |
| Quincy Jones: In the Pocket | VHS 13449 |
| Rap: Looking for the Perfect Beat | VHS 10478 |
| Rainbow Quest (Leadbelly) | VHS 1332 |
| Repercussions-Celebration of African-American Music | VHS 2432 (4v.) |
| Roots of Rap | VHS 11775 |
| Rhythm of Resistance | VHS 3633 |
| Sacred Concerts (Duke Ellington) | VHS 11071 |
| Shirley Caesar | VHS 11769 |
| Sonny Rollins and Company with Jim Hall | VHS 10660 |
| That Rhythm - Those Blues | VHS 2334 |
| Thelonius Monk, American Composer | VHS 9059 |
| Tryin’ to Get Home | VHS 7063 |
| Walter Hawkins & the Hawkins Family | VHS 11778 |
| We Shall Overcome | VHS 2572 |
| Wild Women Don’t Get the Blues | VHS 2570 |
Celebrating the Arts
| Against the Odds: The Artists of Harlem | VHS 5229 |
| Alex Haley | VHS 4847 |
| Alice Walker and the Color Purple | VHS 8253 |
| Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater | VHS 4424 |
| Amiri Baraka | VHS 2961 |
| Benny Andrews: The Visible Man | VHS 8130 |
| Black Shadows on a Silver Screen | VHS 1295 |
| Classified X | VHS 8958 |
| Chinua Achebe | VHS 7959 |
| Clementine Hunter: American Folk Artist | VHS 6693 |
| Coal Black Voices | VHS 12622 |
| Culture Shock | VHS 10728 v.2 |
| Duncanson’s Murals | VHS 1320 |
| Emma Amos: Action Lines | VHS 8131 |
| Faith Ringgold: The Last Quilt Story | VHS 4940 |
| Furious Flower: Conversations with African-American Poets | VHS 10511 |
| For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide (Drama) | VHS 12952 |
| Ghost of Harriet Tubman (Drama) | VHS 9616 |
| Gordon Park’s Visions | VHS 3501 |
| Howardena Pindell: Atomizing Art | VHS 13533 |
| I’ll Make Me a World | VHS 9459 (6v.) |
| Imani (Kwanzaa) | VHS 4253 |
| James Baldwin: Price of the Ticket | VHS 3292 |
| John T. Biggers: Stories of Illumination | VHS 7455 |
| Just Doin’ It: A Tale of Two Barbershops | VHS 3935 |
| Lorraine Hansberry | VHS 1607 |
| Midnight Ramble: Early Black Films | VHS 5686 |
| Morehouse Men | VHS 6924 |
| Multicultural Peoples of North America | VHS 4786 (v.1) |
| One Shot: The Life and Work of Teenie Harris | VHS 13695 |
| Romare Bearden: Visual Jazz | VHS 6785 |
| Richard Wright: Writing Is His Weapon | VHS 11328 |
| Similar Differences: Bettye & Alison Saar | VHS 5139 |
| That’s Black Entertainment | VHS 10030 |
| Toni Morrison Uncensored | VHS 10805 |
| Twilight Los Angeles (Drama) | VHS 12275 |
Biographies
| A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs & Freedom | VHS 7454 |
| ABC News Nightline: Louis Farrakhan | VHS 3163 |
| Adam Clayton Powell | VHS 3231 |
| Alice Walker | VHS 6081 v.10 |
| Angel That Stands By Me: Minnie Evans | VHS 7218 |
| Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World | VHS 5788 |
| Autobiography of Malcolm X | VHS 11886 |
| Benjamin E. Mays | VHS 4778 |
| Bird Now (Charlie Bird Parker) | VHS 9805 |
| Booker T. Washington | VHS 4413 v.11 |
| Can’t You Hear the Wind Howl: Robert Johnson | VHS 10003 |
| Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog | VHS 9056 |
| Cissy Houston | VHS 10578 |
| Colin Powell: A Soldier’s Campaign | VHS 6822 |
| Dancing Man, Peg Leg Bates | VHS 4320 |
| Elijah Muhammad | VHS 6081 v.8 |
| Ella Fitzgerald: Something to Live For | VHS 10166 |
| First Person Singular: John Hope Franklin | VHS 9489 |
| Frederick Douglas: When the Lion Wrote History | VHS 6644 |
| George Washington Carver | VHS 4413 v.1 |
| Harriet Tubman | VHS 4413 v.9 |
| Held In Trust: The Story of Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper | VHS 11804 |
| Honoring Those Who Led the Way | VHS 9615 |
| Hoop Dreams | VHS 5776 |
| I Shall Not Be Removed (Marlon Riggs) | VHS 7267 |
| In Remembrance of Martin | VHS 12763 |
| Incredible Voyage of Bill Pinkney | VHS 6624 |
| Jack Johnson: Breaking Barriers | VHS 7343 |
| Jackie Robinson | VHS 4413 v.7 |
| James Baldwin | VHS 6081 v.2 |
| Jeni LeGon: Living in a Great Big Way | VHS 11995 |
| Jesse Jackson: I Am Somebody | VHS 6228 |
| Jesse Owens | VHS 6081 v.9 |
| Ken Saro-Wiwa: An African Martyr | VHS 7960 |
| King, a Filmed Record Montgomery to Memphis | VHS 1834 |
| Langston Hughes | VHS 6081 v.7 |
| Latin and African Americans | VHS 11171 |
| Life and Legends of Sojourner Truth | VHS 12635 |
| Madam C. J. Walker | VHS 4413 v.10 |
| Malcolm X: Make It Plain | VHS 5015a(3v.) |
| Mandela: From Prisoner to President | VHS 7961 |
| Marcus Garvey: Look For Me In the Whirlwind | VHS 12273 |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | VHS 4413 v.4 |
| Mary McLeod Bethune | VHS 6081 v.3 |
| Matthew Henson | VHS 6081 v.6 |
| Maya Angelou | VHS 9874 |
| Me & Stella: A Film About Elizabeth Cotte | VHS 7073 |
| Michael Jordan: Air Time | VHS 9286 |
| Muhammad Ali: Skill, Brains and Guts! | VHS 7342 |
| Odyssey of Captain Healy | VHS 10052 |
| Paul Robeson: Here I Stand | VHS 9845 |
| Portraits In Black | VHS 1313 |
| Ralph Ellison: the Self-Taught Writer | VHS 10689 |
| Richard Pryor: Comic on the Edge | VHS 7400 |
| Sarah Vaughan, the Divine One | VHS 9060 |
| Satchmo: Louis Armstrong | VHS 9058 |
| Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light | VHS 10138 |
| Sugar Ray Robinson: Pound for Pound | VHS 7341 |
| Thurgood Marshall | VHS 4413 v.5 |
| Two Dollars and a Dream (C.J. Walker) | VHS 3394 |
| W.E.B. Du Bois | VHS 7269 |
| When We Were Kings | VHS 7688 |
| Winnie, Nelson Mandela | VHS 1394 |
| Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong | VHS 12360 |
| World According to John Coltrane | VHS 9057 |
African-American History
| African American Experience | VHS 5932 (2v.) |
| African American Life (Juvenile) | VHS 12844 |
| African-Americans: Marching to Freedom | VHS 12034 v.12 |
| The Africans | VHS 847 (9v.) |
| Africans In America | VHS 8942 (4v.) |
| American Apartheid? | VHS 9480 |
| Amistad Revolt | VHS 7733 |
| Black American Conservatism | VHS 4321 |
| Black America’s War | VHS 3934 |
| Black Genealogy | VHS 258 (3v.) |
| Black History: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed? | VHS 894 |
| Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords | VHS 9567 |
| Black Soldier | VHS 869 |
| Black Stars in Orbit | VHS 3925 |
| Black West | VHS 3432 |
| Bloods of ’Nam | VHS 1210 |
| Buffalo Soldiers | VHS 6656 |
| Cincinnati, a Look Back at Our City’s History | VHS 93a |
| Civil War (Ken Burns) | VHS 2728 (9v.) |
| Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment | VHS 3273 |
| Deadly Deception (Tuskegee Syphilis Study) | VHS 4435 |
| Digging for Slaves | VHS 4493 |
| Don’t Leave out the Cowboys | VHS 3152 |
| Fatal Flood | VHS 12361 |
| Firebell in the Night | VHS 498 v.6 |
| Flight to Freedom (Underground Railroad) | VHS 7500 |
| Flyers in Search of a Dream | VHS 1981 |
| Found Voices: The Slave Narratives | VHS 10406 |
| From Dreams to Reality: Minority Inventors | VHS 802 |
| From These Roots (Harlem Renaissance) | VHS 3576 |
| Gandhi-King-Ikeda: Community Builders | VHS 11936 |
| Generations of Resistance (South Africa) | VHS 1389 |
| Goin’ Back to T’town | VHS 4451 |
| Goin’ to Chicago | VHS 7268 |
| Harlem Hellfighters | VHS 7570 |
| Heritage of Slavery | VHS 829 |
| History of Slavery in the United States | VHS 5131 |
| Homecoming: Sometimes I Am Haunted By… | VHS 10118 |
| I Remember Harlem | VHS 356 |
| Jefferson’s Blood | VHS 12712 |
| John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk | VHS 10582 |
| Journey of the African-American Athlete | VHS 8888 |
| KKK Hate Crimes in America | VHS 7490 |
| Kings on the Hill | VHS 4863 |
| Klan: Legacy of Hate in America | VHS 3282 |
| Language You Cry In (Gullahs) | VHS 10093 |
| Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in WWII | VHS 4728 |
| Lynching: The Heinous Past | VHS 13092 |
| Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry | VHS 3639 |
| Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle | VHS 1378 |
| Mood Indigo, Blacks & Whites | VHS 4105 |
| Nightfighters | VHS 6835 |
| Oh Freedom After While | VHS 10555 |
| Only the Ball Was White | VHS 6625 |
| Passin’ It On (Black Panther Party) | VHS 5299 |
| Roots of Resistance (Underground Railroad) | VHS 2640 |
| Royal Federal Blues | VHS 5351 |
| Scandalize My Name: Stories from…Blacklist | VHS 10742 |
| Shadow of Hate | VHS 5967 |
| Son of Africa: Slave Narrative of Olaudah Equiano | VHS 10117 |
| “Then I’ll Be Free to Travel Home” (African Burial Ground) | VHS 12226 |
| Tuskegee Airmen | VHS 4796 |
| Underground Railroad | VHS 12892 |
Race Relations & Civil Rights
| After Ten Years: The Court and the Schools | VHS 11604 |
| All God’s Children | VHS 9465 |
| All Power to the People | VHS 11460 |
| America in Black and White: Racial Profiling | VHS 10191 |
| America in Black and White: Protect and Serve | VHS 12820 |
| American Love Story | VHS 9813 (5v.) |
| An Amazing Grace | VHS 3923 |
| At the River I Stand | VHS 10554 |
| Bill of Rights, Bill of Responsibility | VHS 7709 |
| Black Is, Black Ain’t | VHS 6285 |
| Black Power, White Backlash | VHS 11606 |
| Blue Eyed | VHS 7266 |
| Bombing of West Philly | VHS 1978 |
| Civil Rights Martyrs: Free at Last | VHS 10788 |
| Civil Rights: The Long Road to Equality | VHS 10060 |
| Color Adjustment | VHS 3723 |
| Color Line On Campus | VHS 11603 |
| Color of Justice | VHS 4678 |
| Conversation on Race | VHS 11803 |
| Diffusing Racial Tension on Campus | VHS 13719 |
| Ethnic Notions | VHS 2574 |
| Eyes on the Prize, 1954-65 | VHS 900 (6v.) |
| Eyes on the Prize, 1965-68 | VHS 2657 (8v.) |
| Figures of the Civil Rights Movement | VHS 10476 |
| Focus Reparations | VHS 12700 |
| Four Little Girls | VHS 9040 |
| Framing an Execution | VHS 13143 |
| Freedom On My Mind | VHS 7272 |
| How Biased Are You? | VHS 12714 |
| I Have a Dream | VHS 1019 |
| In Search of a Common Destiny | VHS 4379 |
| Interracial Marriage | VHS 13057 |
| The Issue Is Race | VHS 4436 |
| Just Black? | VHS 4007 |
| Legacy of a Dream | VHS 4765 |
| Malcolm X | VHS 3680 |
| Marshall, Texas; Marshall, Texas | VHS 4128 |
| Martin Luther King: Commemorative Collection | VHS 1640 |
| Martin Luther King: Commemorative Program | VHS 4471 |
| Martin Luther King Jr.: Leading America to the Promised Land | VHS 11716 |
| Mississippi and the 15th Amendment | VHS 11602 |
| Oh Freedom After While | VHS 10555 |
| Politics of Love in Black and White | VHS 10708 |
| Question of Color | VHS 9438 |
| Race Against Prime Time | VHS 2571 |
| Race on Trial | VHS 13584 |
| Road to Brown | VHS 2573 |
| Robeson Concerts: Peekskill, NY 1949 | VHS 10161 |
| Second American Revolution | VHS 1604 |
| Segregation, Northern Style | VHS 11605 |
| Selma: The City and the Symbol | VHS 13601 |
| Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. | VHS 1906 |
| Strange Demise of Jim Crow | VHS 10006 |
| Struggle for Identity: Transracial Adoption | VHS 9905 |
| Tongues Untied | VHS 3562 |
| Trouble Behind | VHS 3632 |
| Two Nations of Black America | VHS 8941 |
| Understanding Race | VHS 10479 |
| Visions of Vine Street | VHS 12728 |
| Where Do We Go From Here? | VHS 12829 |
| You Got to Move: Stories of change in the South | VHS 2477 |
Feature Films
Features are shelved alphabetically by title
| Ali | VHS & DVD |
| Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned | VHS & DVD |
| America’s Dream | VHS |
| Amistad | VHS & DVD |
| And the Children Shall Lead | VHS |
| Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman | VHS |
| Baby Boy | VHS & DVD |
| Bamboozled | VHS & DVD |
| Band of Angels | VHS |
| Beloved | VHS & DVD |
| Best Man | VHS & DVD |
| Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings | VHS & DVD |
| Black King | VHS |
| Boesman & Lena | VHS & DVD |
| Bowfinger | VHS & DVD |
| Boycott | VHS & DVD |
| Boyz ’N the Hood | VHS & DVD |
| Brewster Place | VHS |
| Bring It On | VHS & DVD |
| Brothers, The | VHS & DVD |
| Buffalo Soldiers | VHS |
| Cabin in the Sky | VHS |
| Carmen Jones | VHS & DVD |
| Charlotte Forten’s Mission | VHS |
| Color of Friendship | VHS |
| Color Purple | VHS & DVD |
| Conrack | VHS |
| Cooley High | VHS & DVD |
| Corrina, Corrina | VHS & DVD |
| Cotton Club | VHS & DVD |
| Cotton Comes to Harlem | VHS & DVD |
| Crooklyn | VHS & DVD |
| Cry Freedom | VHS & DVD |
| Cry the Beloved Country | VHS |
| Daughters of the Dust | VHS & DVD |
| Decoration Day | VHS |
| Devil in a Blue Dress | VHS & DVD |
| Disappearing Acts | VHS & DVD |
| Do the Right Thing | VHS & DVD |
| Down in the Delta | VHS & DVD |
| Dr. Dolittle | VHS & DVD |
| Dr. Dolittle 2 | VHS & DVD |
| Emperor Jones | VHS |
| Eve’s Bayou | VHS & DVD |
| Family Thing | VHS & DVD |
| Finding Buck McHenry | VHS |
| Finding Forrester | VHS & DVD |
| Five Heartbeats | VHS & DVD |
| For Love of Ivy | VHS |
| For Us the Living: Medgar Evers | VHS |
| Freedom Song | VHS |
| Get on the Bus | VHS & DVD |
| Ghosts of Mississippi | VHS & DVD |
| Girl in Room 20 | VHS |
| Glory | VHS & DVD |
| Go tell It on the Mountain | VHS |
| Great White Hope | VHS |
| Green Pastures | VHS |
| Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner | VHS & DVD |
| Harder They Come | VHS & DVD |
| Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters | VHS |
| He Got Game | VHS & DVD |
| Hi De Ho | VHS |
| House Divided | VHS |
| How Stella Got Her Groove Back | VHS & DVD |
| Hurricane | VHS & DVD |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | VHS |
| I’m Gonna Git You Sucka | VHS & DVD |
| Imitation of Life | VHS |
| In the Heat of the Night | VHS & DVD |
| Introducing Dorothy Dandridge | VHS & DVD |
| Jackie Robinson Story | VHS & DVD |
| Jason’s Lyric | VHS & DVD |
| Jo Jo Dancer Your Life Is Calling | VHS & DVD |
| John Q | VHS & DVD |
| Josephine Baker Story | VHS & DVD |
| Juke Joint | VHS |
| Jumpin Jack Flash | VHS |
| Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. | VHS & DVD |
| Killing Floor | VHS |
| Lady Sings the Blues | VHS |
| Lean On Me | VHS & DVD |
| Legend of Bagger Vance | VHS & DVD |
| Lesson Before Dying | VHS & DVD |
| Life | VHS & DVD |
| Long Walk Home | VHS |
| Love and Basketball | VHS & DVD |
| Love Jones | VHS & DVD |
| Lying Lips | VHS |
| Malcolm X | VHS & DVD |
| Men of Honor | VHS & DVD |
| Midnight Shadow | VHS |
| Miracle In Harlem | VHS |
| Miss Evers’ Boys | VHS & DVD |
| Mississippi Burning | VHS & DVD |
| Mississippi Masala | VHS |
| Mo’ Better Blues | VHS & DVD |
| Monster’s Ball | VHS & DVD |
| Moon Over Harlem | VHS |
| Native Son | VHS |
| Night John | VHS |
| No Way Out | VHS |
| Nothing but a Man | VHS |
| Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored | VHS & DVD |
| One False Move | VHS & DVD |
| Oscar Micheaux’s Within These Gates | VHS |
| Patch of Blue | VHS |
| Piano Lesson | VHS |
| Pinky | VHS |
| Poetic Justice | VHS & DVD |
| Posse | VHS & DVD |
| Preacher’s Wife | VHS & DVD |
| Pressure Point | VHS |
| Purple Rain | VHS & DVD |
| Raisin in the Sun | VHS & DVD |
| Remember the Titans | VHS & DVD |
| Road to Freedom: The Vernon Johns Story | VHS |
| Roots | VHS 0043 (6v.) |
| Rosewood | VHS & DVD |
| Ruby Bridges | VHS |
| Save the Last Dance | VHS & DVD |
| Scar of Shame | VHS |
| School Daze | VHS & DVD |
| Secrets & Lies | VHS |
| Selma Lord Selma | VHS |
| Set It Off | VHS & DVD |
| Shadows | VHS |
| Shadrach | VHS & DVD |
| Shaft | VHS & DVD |
| Simple Life of Noah Dearborn | VHS |
| Sky Is Gray (short film) | VHS |
| Slam | VHS & DVD |
| Soldier’s Story | VHS |
| Soul Food | VHS & DVD |
| Souls of Sin | VHS |
| Sounder | VHS |
| Sparkle | VHS |
| Stir Crazy | VHS & DVD |
| Stormy Weather | VHS |
| Tic Code | VHS & DVD |
| To Sir With Love | VHS & DVD |
| To Sleep With Anger | VHS |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin | VHS |
| Waiting to Exhale | VHS & DVD |
| What’s Love Got To Do With It | VHS & DVD |
| White Lies | VHS & DVD |
| Wiz | VHS & DVD |
| Women of Brewster Place | VHS |
| The Wood | VHS & DVD |
| A Woman Called Moses | VHS |
| Zulu | VHS |
